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The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18
Chinese Criminals in California.

About one-tenth of the criminals in the two
state prisons in California are Chinese. But
these convicted felons bear no just proportion
to the crimes convicted by Mongolians; for
it must always be borne in mind that the
Chinese on the Pacific coast represent only
the lowest and mcst reckless class Nine
tcnths of them are coolies or virtual slaves,
half starved from birth and driven by stress
of hunger to crime. These, swarming into
Canton and Hong Kong, came over to this
country when the gold rush began, and later,
when tho Pacific railroads demanded an army
OF laborers, the coolies We're gathered up by
the thousand and shipped across the ocean.
They We're natural Adventures, and it is not
strange that i'll the newer land they robbed
and murdered as they had done at home.-
George H. Fitch in The Cosmopolitan.
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Idoan belief half hear-onless it vhas
scandal Den belief it all and more too
Carl Duuder.

WHAT TRUE MERIT WILL DO.
The unprecedented sale of Boschee's German
Syrup within few wears. has astonished the
world Ii is without douh, the safest and best
remedy ever discovered for the speedy and ctfcc-
tual cure of Coughs. Colds and the scvcrcst Lung
troubles. 1t acts entirely different principle
from the usual prescriptions given by Physicians,
as ii does not dry upa Congh and leave the disease
still in the system. but the contrary removes
the cause of the trouble. heals the parts affected
and leaves them in purely healthy condition. y
bottle kept in the house for use when the diseases
make their appearance, will save doctors bilsand
n long spell of serious Illness. y trial Will con-
vince you of these facts 1t i> positively sold by
all druggists and general dealers i'll the land.
Price, Is cts., large bottles. Apr.30-ly.
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18
BASEBALL.

John NJ Conncll, formerly league and
association umpire, has been appointed as an
umpire i'll the International league by Sccre-
tary White.
Morgan T. Murphy, of the Boston team, is
the youngest catcher i'll the league rs lie is
but 10 years of age. He played with the
Boston Blues last year.
Manager Harry Wright has definitely do
ci,lcl upon Il southern trip, and his Phiadrl-
phia team is booked to play in Charleston, S.
O., March 2i, gaS and -.
kapprl, Cincinnati's new third baseman,
ranks with Fcnnclly and McPhcc as q base
runner There is little doubt that he will
play with the team i'll Carpenters place.
The new league rules are severely criticised
by Fognrty of the Philadclphias, who asserts
that, instead of bettering the game, it will
put it back to where was ten years ago.
Manager Watkins says he would not trade
Har,lio Richardson, of the Dctroits, for tho
great and only Michael j. Kelly. He says
that Richardson can play in any position on
the ball field.
The Detroit club management have made
another appeal to the people OF their city for
substantial support. This. they urge, can he
gwen 10y purchasing Tor SO IL season ticket,
emitting the holder to admission to G3 schctl-
ulc,l games.
Ii is rather early in the season to predict
how the clubs of any particular league will
rank ut the close of the season, but IL Syracuse
manager says that the international clubs
will come out of the race i'll the following
order: Newark, Rochester, Syracuse, Jersey
City, Toronto, Binglmmton, Utica, Hamil-
ton, Buffalo and Oswcgo. Doubtless, the
Utica people will have something to say OH
this point.
Tho Baltimore Herald figures it out thusly:
'lt is liberal estimate to say that Mike
Kelly will play total OF $50 games during
the season. They will average two hours
each in length, or 26o hours. Two hundred
and sixty hours will equal in round numbers
eleven full days. For these eleven days this
desirable exponent of baseball gets Sl5.!.54 {;
day, or Mt the incredible rate of S1G5,!07. II
per annum, and Boston has bought this gold
| mino for S15UDO"
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18
The Colorcd Population.

AT n recent meeting in Baltimore Of the
Frcetlman's Aid society an organization for
the education Of Methodist ministers among
tho negroes of the south, Secretary I. G.
Inrtzcl said that the colored people arc i'll
crcasins more by births than the whites are
hy births and emigration combined. Five
hundred colored babies are born every
twenty-four hours. He had seen somc old
colore'l preachers hold the Bible upside down,
| and all they could Go was to shout and pound
the Bible; but he'd rather hear a man like
that preach than u namby pamby, pink
paper young man read a milk and water
essay. The brethren shouted "Amcn. New
Nnrl. mn
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18
horticultural Exhibitions and Prizes.

4 schedule of prizes offered by the
Massachusetts Horticultural society for
the year 1881 has been issued. AS COM
petition is open to all persons the at
tcntion of exhibitors is particularly called
to the rules and regulations found in this
schedule, which can he obtained. until the
stock is exhausted. on written application
to the secretary. Robert Manning, Boston,
Mass. The amount appropriated for
prizes and gratui,ics is AZ follows: For
plants and flowers, So. 45i; fruits. $4,000;
Vegetables, $1,000; gardens, greenhouses,
etc, $500: making y total of S6.91l.
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18
Inoculation of Cattle.

DR.. McI.uchrnn, live stock inspector for
Canada, is opposed to incubation of caitlr
for the prevention of pleuro-pnenmonia.
He is reported as saying: "In every
country in the world where it las been
impartially tried and reported on the re-
port has been unfuvorablc. He regards
it us IL dangerous operation and not war
rantcd by any known benefits. "Many
die from the operation itself. and wherever
it is prac,icc,l ii has To he kept up Thus
in scotland, where inocul:tion 'practiccd,
there is IL constant supply of the virus,
and the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh
are active ccntcrs of the disease"
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18
nI.ACEHErrY PLANTS,


For the benefit of amateurs we let
an experienced grower give chapter
from every day life. Following are Mr.. Il.
=. Rocs opinions, as expressed i'll Orchard
and Garden: The most julicions method
consists in "heading or pinchinS back the
main canes during the growing season.
The energy of the plant is thus thrown
into that part which is to be retained fur
fruiting Stout, we'll maturcd canes and
strong latcrals are the result of such
treatment.
In order to make the matter quite plain
to beginners, is published cut showing
two blackberry plants as they appear on
or about the LIST of February, when prop
crly pnchcl back last season; also one
plant MS it will appear after its first prun-
ing
blackberry and black raspberry plants
when thus pruncd ought not L" stand over
three feet high For the rcd r;,sphcrrics,
Mr.. Roe prefers the ''pinchins back"
method in the fall. without amy further
pruning. In strong clay soils, the latter
arc liable to sucker much too freely, and
need a general ovcrhauln:s, thinning and
cleaning up in the spring. This spring
pruning may now he done ut any time
when the weather will permit.
Now is Il good time to feed your crops.
Well compoStctl barn yard manure, free
from weed seed, is all right for straw
berries and rasphcrrics. Wood ashes are
one of the best fertilizers, and may be APP
piled at the rate of from fifty to 100
bushels to the acre, and perhaps upward.
Carbonate of potash. one of the chief con-
stitucntS of wood ashes. tends to retain
mosturc-just what is needed in the
strawberry patch. Ashes, therefore, are
tloubly valuable, as they supply both food
and drink.
IL ashes are not at hand, or too cXpcn
sivc, muriatc of potash and pure bone dust
may he applied. Mr.. I. ii. Hale recon-
mclls Il mixture of 500 pounds of the
former and loo pounds of the latter per
acre, and this. we believe, is about correct
in most cases: but less potash will gen
orally do on clay soils, while more of it
may be beneficial for very sandy Soils
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18
THE SLAVE TRADE.
AN OLD ENGINEER TELLS WHAT HE
KNEW OF THE BUSINESS.

In the Days When Negroes We're Brought
From Africa and sold in New Or
lrn:.> White Girls Sold to African
Chiefs.
VS." sail William Jac! HAYNES, the cen
t"ai! i'm thu other day, II VIZ. Il The slave
trad TO. tllro" years-tha: is, | Y,;ls c..nccr
on the steamship Gramr,li, VII. !. r;l. from
NJ" '':le:.s To Africa flY tlr.e years, buy
in, Mr.,rucs in Africa ;'al selling til III in
Nc,' G.l,Ylns."
"il"w did you get possession Of the negroes
to bring t.!rm ovcr!'
IL will tell You how we generally managed,
and We always had a good load on our return
trip You know i'll those days, fifty or sixty
years ago, the servant girls in the south were
of a very ordinary and worthless kind, and
would do ;.lm"st anything Many of them
had 10 ho!mr, and few. if amy, friends, and
so no OH" noticed their departure. The cap
tain of the slip Gramru, would induce Il num-
lHer of t',rst girls to so on board as servants,
and "l"m We reached the coast of .Nfrica
we would cast anchor, and the captain and his
men would have the boats lowered and 90
ashore. They would socn ascertain wlirrc the
chief or head man of the tribe lived, and
then they would take one or vo or the girls
ashore with them and pay visit To the head
of the savage tribe. Tie girls were always
willing I" 30 and sre the coun,lv,' and when
they reached the African cl,i"t they wcr.
made an article of merchandise, Just as were
the trinketa that we carried over With them.
Tie captain would ncs"tiato hy signs when
10 Interpreter could lc had, and the savage
chief most always was charmed with the
white girls, and was nos -c;,rl with n Strono
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18
Wa1er on the i.ncm.

There need never he any scarcity of
water suitable for farming purposes in
locations that are favored with nn average
rainfall provided what falls on house and
barn roofs he saved in cistrrns. The
barns needed tn shelter stock and the
provcl''rr for their winter feed will she'd
water enough to last through the ,lryrst
time in winter or summer For house use
rain wat"r is better than most we'll waiter,
provided it has first been filtered, nearly
all we'll water contains mineral mpllri-
tics. which make it unhcalthful for use.
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18
ACROSS THE SEAS.

Railway carriages are now fitted up es
churches i'll Russia, so that people can wor
ship rs they travel.
Germany has issued orders to weed out Ger
tain classes of Frenchmen from Alsace. Look
out for an influx of opera bouire singers.
There were 9, 147 fires in London last year.
The engines attached to the land stations
made s., ,S32 journeys and used 100000 gal
Ions of water.
An item which will interest stamp collectors
is the following: The son of the Duchess dc
Galliere is thought to possess the finest collec-
ton of postage stamps i'll the world 1t fills
800 volumes, and lie has spent over $3.50 900
in satisfying his hobby.
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18
Looking Out for Him.

Countryman dn an uptown hoteD-Nhat
time is supper ready, mister!"
Clerk-Sx o'clock, sir.
Countryman with an air of vexation)-
Well, I've got some business to tend to afore
l eat, an I'm 'fraid won't git back till bout
seven.
Clerk-I'll have the cook put something
away for you on a plate,-New York Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18
In the yincyar,l,

Vines that were properly pruncd last
fall require but little attention now. If,
however pruning was neglected, it may
he altrm,lrl tn whenever the weather is
mild T.. Williams, IL prominent vine
grower in New Jersey. says: ".\'l"pt some
system tempered with reason and common
sense and follow it. Prunr severely if
You would get tine fruit. .\voi! asking
the wine to pruducr beyond is strength.
More vines are ruined by ovcrcropping
than by severe pruning. Don't he t""
grrrdy''
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18
Sailing Butter.

Many dairy authorities agree that the
s;lting of butter is had hairyin@. The
idea that it keeps the butter is an error.
When butter is sultr;l With brine the salt
is most thoroughly Incorporated with il.
and the butter keeps best. as the lrin"
stays there, hui dry salt will diSin"gra,e
and STAY only in miMmte grannlnr form.
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18
A PRACTICAL POULTRY HOUSE.

The sketch for IL poultry house here
given is designed for twenty-five to thirty
fowls, and makes II practical and comfort
able house The ground plan may be
about lON20 feet and ) or Is feet high at
the corners or caves There is IL division
in the middle With Il good sized window
in each division facing the south. and Il
pair of shutters to each window for clos
ing up at pleasure; outside door on the
west end. roosting racks in each division
and most boxes in the west.
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18

There is no kind of use to feed fowls
we'll and then fail to keep them warm and
and dry. They will not indeed they can
not, give egg profit when not comfort
ably housed during inclement weather.
Warmth and comfort through the winter
season is the great secret of success.
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18
just So.

Belmont, Ca, boasts of woman 'who
goes out and chops wood with her husband. "
We suppose the husband must be hatchet
faced and has at some time been IL drummer.
New Haven News.
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Where the Other One Was

Child at Washington-Who are all those
men lounging around outside the Capitol'
Parent-They are United States senators,
my child.
care there any more senator's besides
theme"
''Only one"
'Where is he!"
"He is inside, making speech. Omaha
World
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18
FARM AND GARDEN.
A CHEAP AND PRACTICAL POULTRY
HOUSE FOR THIRTY FOWLS.

Prizes offered for Exhibits in Horticult-
ural Products-.Agricultural News from
Many Sections of tho Country-How
and When to Prunc Blackbcrrics.
Amateurs are always at loss as to the
best time and best methods cf pruning.
The cNrcricncel.- grower knows that good
fruits alone yield him profit, while the
production of inferior ones is inevitably
connected with !, loss. lie knows, too,
raSpberrics and blackbcrrios.
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The Work of - uatc,;.t

Hand in hand, through circlin.. years,
These two still journey ON;
The great, ill,lStrious cherry tree,
And the kid who chopped it down.
-panSvillc Breeze,
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18

According to n recently published book
parsley was the only vegetabls eaten in tho
tim. OF Queen Elizabeth. The favoritc game
was pigeons, trout, chicken, vcnisom and
rabbits.
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18

NCN,N triAe with any Throat or
DOS Lung Disease. If you have
o Cough or Cold, or the children are
threatened with Croupor Whooping Cough.
use Ackers English Remedy and prevent
further trouble. 1t is a positive cure,
and we guarantee it. Price 10 and soc.
FOWLER 4 I..ANGDON.
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18
Lillian Russell's Age.

Husband-Lilian Russell is the prettest
woman i'll the world.
Wifc-Ycs, but she is awfully old
Husband-Old! What are you talking
about! She was only % when she married
Solomon.
Wifc-But. my dear, You should remember
Solomon lived q long time Washington
Critic.
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18

There are confined in the prisons Of the
country, according to report of Commits
sioner of Labor Carroll d. Wright, 6A,G09
convicts, proportion of l in 1000 to the
population of the whole United States. Mr.
Wright believes that the competition arising
from the employment OF convicts is not a
question worthy Of serious discussion.
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18

~ Might aAlsssy: Asssy5's hs5s ssss
soother ut hand. 1t is the only safe
medicine yet made that will remove all
infantile disorders. 1t contains no Opium
or Morphine, but gives the child natural
ease from pain. Price 25 cents, Sold by
FOWLER 4 LANGDON.
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18
Mexican
Mustang
Liiniinlent

uE!!S siS~G S6s ~ f>tsS -
accom;ltscs for every body exactly what iscinimcl
forit. one the reasons for the great popularity OF
tho Must ~. i.i,,,uont Is found ATS universal
applicability. Everybody needs sl:c medicine.
The i.:;.:iiir r,:i;,u needs it IN Of accident
The f;.ii.c &c needs it for general family use
T'hu iau.iicy needs it for Ills teams and Ills men.
The Mechanic needs it always on his work
bench.
Tic fIincr needs it n case OF emergency
The ee1IocGsit-cant set along without 1t.
I!le Farmer needs it In his house, his stable.
anl his stool: yard.
'i'le Steamboat nlnr or the B0ntnan needs
1t in liberal supply ahoat and ashore.
G'he IGorsr-iuEcicr needs lit Is his lest
friend aid safest reliance.
,.':,c .itaoii.growcr needs it-it will save him
tlous;,l!s OF dollar; aud q world Of trouble.
G!,a ;::liirpa, iian needs it and will need 1t so
lo,. his life is round OF accidents and dangers
Iba E;tciky.0ctisEluu needs it. There is noth-
inrl.c it as an a.itdote for the dangers to life,
limb and confer: which surround the pioneer.
Hiic Merchant needs it about his store among
his employees. Accidents will happen, and when
these come the Mustang Liniment iswanted at once.
Keep Il I:o:,!c in the House. 'Tis the best Of
economy.
Necpn Bottle III She Factory. 1ts1mmcdfate
use in case o. accident saves pain and loss of wages.
Keep IL Bottle Always i'll the Stnble for
use when wanted.
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18

John NJ. Conncll, formerly league and
association umpire, has been appointed as an
umpire in the International league by Sccre-
talv White
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18

Reports from the principal wheat grow
ing states continue to he generally favor
able with the exception of those from
Illinois uu1 I<uncoe
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18

Slosson and Schacfer, the two great billiard
experts, will again cross cues at Chicago i'll
f,,t,
The Dickinson press., 1887-06-18
THEY LEARNED wi.E TRUTH.

"What report would you give OH yo IL re-
urn of those girls who won't out with yous"
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Above the trees tower the dome and bat
Elements of the old church, and shadowy
alleys, embowered in grapevines and grand
roses lead up to the convent refectory where
once the good monks mortified the flesh.
Below the town there are vast sugar es-
tates, many of the haciendas dating from
the period of the conquest. and each pro
-ducing not less than million pounds Of
sugar per annum, besides fair quota of
coffee, cocoa, etc. These haciendas have
great mills, equipped with the best ma
chinery known for crushing the cane,
evaporating and crystalizing the juice and
distilling rum from the refuse. In them
selves they do not cover a great extent of
territory, but undoubtedly monopolize all
the fertile lands of the region. This fair
valley is most delightful place to visit
but offers not the faiRtest show of induce
ment to favor capital as place of resi-
dence. FANNIE B. WARD.
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Four Little Kings.

The King of Greece is very tall and
slim, with a dull, heavy face, sleepy blue
eyes, thick, straight nose and dropping
brown mustache
The King CT Denmark is tall, with a
broad, compact figure. He has the face oil
sea Captain; his complexion is very red
his face has not much expression and his
features are irregular. He wears mus
tache and side-whiskers, which are of an
iron-gray color. His shaved chin is square
and positive in its lines.
The King of Belgium is tall, straight.
with a full chest and broad shoulders.
His hair is s dark brown black, parted ex-
actly in the nsiddle His eyes are dark,
set deeply under very straight eyebrows.
His nose is straight; full, sweeping brown
esustache and very full brown beard
The King of Saxony is very ordinary
locking man. He has the appearance of a
retired merchant with a small income V no
lives a peaceful, narrow life He is of me-
diua hight, with sloping. round shoulders,
His hair is gray; his complexion is sal
low; his eyes cold gray-blHe; his nose large
and straight a snowy white mustache and
white side-Ehisaers conceal in measure
the weak character of the lover part of
his face.-Iress Cable Lsttsr.
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A WONDERFUL TRUMPET.
Conversation Carried On Over a Distance
of Nearly Five Miles.

of Nearly Five Miles.
A Chicago Times dispatch from Cincin-
natl says: At Fernbank, seven miles from
this city, are the workshop and laboratory
of Harvey B. Cox, young electrician,
who though known to but few here is at
tracing the attention of scientists and
electricians in this country and Europe
by his inventions, in which he is as pro-
life and ingenious as Edison. His latest
device is trumpet, to be used for tele-
phoning at sea, on which he has been
working for some months. The invention
is the outgrowth of his discovery of the
great distance an echo or reverberation
| Will carry, and the discovery that speak
ing-trumpets, if made to give the same
fundamental note, would vibrate and pro-
duce the same phenomena known III ac-
oustics as sympathy.
With this trumpet, conversation in an
ordinary tone of voice was carried on be-
tween persons four and one-fourth miles
apart. People sitting in their windows,
on their porches, mile away, conversing
| III an ordinary tone, could be distinctly
heard, and in a couple of instances they
| were told the nature Of their conversation,
| and they admitted that such had taken
place. By listening to the whistle of a
train and tracing it to and beyond Fern
back to Lawrenceburg, Ind, it was found
| that the instrument has a well-defned
range of twenty-six miles. That is, loud
| sound like locomotive whistle or the
rumbling of traincan be distinctly heard
at distance of thirteen miles in every
| direction.
Conversation was readily carried on be.
tween two persons on high hills on OPP
posite sides of the Ohio river, about -four
and half miles apart. Tests made or
the water showed that the trumpet was
even more available than on land The
instrument will be patented as soon as it is
| perfected
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Written for the RECORD UNION.
TO-MORROW.

All who can tell what tomorrow will bring
Whether it be joy or sorrow?
Though to-day may be bright,
Yet a mantle of gloom
May enshroud us in darkness tomorrow.
We are here to day, yet our feet may stray
TO that land of silence and beauty;
When tomorrow shall come
Our lips may be dumb
No more viii our hands do their duty
When in silence they rest, folded over the breast
That has ever been filed with deep sorrow:
When our cold lips are pressed
With no answering caress
Then for us there will be no tomorrow
Tomorrow That word hath a charm for us all.
Aud we look for its coming with gladness;
Though the morn may be fair
That heralds the day,
To some hearts it may bring naught but sadness
Then let US forget not some kind word to speak
To those now encompassed with sorrow-
1t viii cheer the sad heart,
1t viii brighten life's way
1t viii tighten the cares of tomorrow
-MRs. NELLIE BLOOM
West Oakland, July %, 1887.
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WHEN SHE CONES HOME.

When she cones home agsfn. thousars
NAYS
fashion, to myself, the tenderness
OF my glad welcome; shall trexnble--yes:
And touch her. as when first in the old DAYS
touched her girlish hand, nor dared upraise
My eyes. such Was my faint hearts sweet dis
tress.
Then silence. And the perfumes OF her dress,
The room will sway little and the haze
coy eYesight-soulsight, eyen-for space
throat
To know that SO i'll deserve the place
Her SINS make for me: aud the sobbing note
stag with kisses, ere the fearful face
Again is hidden in the old embrace.
james Whitcom5 Riley, IN the C.7lt,7y.
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A Terrible Fire

Arouses the apprehensions of whole city.
And yet the wild havoc of disease startles
no one. Sad TO relate, women suffer from
year to gear with chronic diseases and
weaknesses peculiar to their sex, knowing
that they are growing worse with every
day. and still take no measures for their
own relief. DR.. Pierces +" Fagorite Pre-
scription is the result of a lifelong and
learned study OF female complaints. Ii is
guaranteed 20 cure.